Tag: Afrobeat
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Sounds Familiar?
From Nigeria 1966: to London via Malawi, 2009: Victor Uwaifo and The Very Best aka Radioclit and Esau Mwamwaya (someone I’ve played on Radio Clash WAY back) will definitely be accompanying me on my iPod to Ethiopia and South Africa – I’m going on the 1st of November flying into Addis Abbaba, then going to…
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Spotify DJ
Unusually for a new(ish) shiny Web 2.0 music application, Spotify is only currently freely available in the UK – but you can get it outside of the UK with an invite (more in a sec)…but it’s basically a legal iTunes-type application you can listen to music for free (with ads)…and it has millions of tracks.…
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UK Funky – yup another new genre!
Twittered about this but forgot to post about it – Uk Funky (or just ‘Funky’) – a new genre/type of music coming out of I guess house, dancehall, grime and 4×4/nu garage scenes, adding african beats or soca beats and rather simplistic dancehall/aerobics style lyrics, I love the groove though, and seems like every song…